Stamp-men tweeze their treasures to avoid smudging, wear, tear; to hold them up to the light or pick them out of benzine baths in search of watermarks.
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Tweeze
//twiz//
Synonyms for "tweeze"
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Translations
6 translations across 4 languages.
German
2 entries- mit der Pinzette anfassen verb (use tweezers)
- mit der Pinzette entfernen verb (use tweezers)
Portuguese
1 entries- pinçar verb (use tweezers)
Spanish
1 entries- pinzar verb (use tweezers)
Turkish
2 entries- cımbızla almak verb (use tweezers)
- cımbızla yolmak verb (use tweezers)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
He held his usual levee at his lodgings; he spent the usual hours washing and dressing; he rubbed his teeth with a red root, tweezed out hairs with a silver tweezer, tied his cravat to admiration, and issued at four precisely as perfectly equipped as if the Rue Royale had been St. James's Street and the Prince himself had hung upon his arm.
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Here Mrs. Lawrence had smiled to soften the anxiety of her blue eyes under their frowning, carefully tweezed brows.
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He’d run his lacquered, dusky pink index finger over his tweezed mustache and say […]
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